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Section 2a - The Fifth Wall
(1) The Fifth Wall – was a talk doo-cot gave at the 2001 Incubation Conference – organised by Trace if you want more information about this years conference go to http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/.
(2) Bertolt Brecht, Poems 1913 – 1956, edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim with the co-operation of Erich Fried, Eyre Methuen, London 1976 0 413 48790 3
(3) I found this note of use from Men, Women and Chainsaws – by Carol J. Clover Pg 118, Princetown University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-691-00620-2
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As Levine’s history of public performance – opera and drama as well as lower forms-eloquently demonstrates, the silent audience is both a modern phenomenon and a created one, the product of a variety of "taming" strategies. |
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So the silent audience is a recent development and possibly aready outmoded. At a production of 'Of Mice and Men' at the Octagon in Bolton in February 2002 - which doo-cot's Technical Manager Julie Parker was involved with - the audience of school children where continuously using their mobile phones during the performance. In fact the Assistant Stage Manager had her mobile phone stolen from backstage whilst she was scene changing - when she phoned her phone and asked for it back - she was told her phone had been sold to the person answering - when questioned further they hung up.
(4) A note on potatoes – more processed potatoes are now bought in the UK than the actual vegetable. Processed food being analogous to processed culture and the continuing development of shut-in society.
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